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Mumbai: BJP and Shiv Sena, the ruling alliance partners in Maharashtra government, are likely to tie-up for the elections to Navi Mumbai and Aurangabad municipal corporations to be held on April 22.
"We feel that having an alliance will benefit both the parties," state BJP unit president Raosaheb Danve told reporters...

Aurangabad: Without making any direct mention of the Shiv Sena in his speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his rally in Aurangabad, a strong bastion of Shiv Sena, indicated that the BJP will stay out of any alliance and appealed to the public to come out of the alliance mentality...

Aurangabad:A Maoist attack took place in Bihar on Thursday and a police team is engaged in a gunbattle with the rebels.
This took place near a police station in the Aurangabad district on Thursday morning.
No casualties have been reported so far.
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Aurangabad: Twelve kawariyas, five of them were women, were killed after a speeding container ran over them on the New DelhiKolkata NH 2 bypass in Aurangabad district of Bihar on early Tuesday morning. Six others were injured in the tragic accident.
The heavy vehicle lost control and ran over the...

Aurangabad: It was a close shave for the BhubaneshwarNew Delhi Rajdhani Express train when the pilot engine running ahead of the train got derailed near Rafiganj station in Aurangabad in Bihar on Wednesday.
No casualties have been reported so far but initial reports suggest that a bomb blast caused the derailment....

Eleven bombs planted by Maoists in Gaya and Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar were found on Wednesday by security forces, police said.
Gaya's Senior Superintendent of Police Nishant Tiwari said five "cane bombs" were recovered from Banke Bazaar area and near Sherghati. In Aurangabad, six similar bombs were found near...

Seven bombs planted by Maoists in Gaya and Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar were found early on Wednesday by security forces, police said.
Bihar will see six-phase polling beginning on April 10. Gaya along with five Maoist-affected constituencies - Aurangabad, Sasaram, Jamui, Nawada and Karakat - will vote on Thursday.
Gaya...

A CRPF trooper, who was injured when a landmine planted by Maoists in Bihar's Aurangabad district went off while being defused and seen on TV pleading for his life, is alive, CRPF chief Dilip Trivedi on Tuesday said.
He said the CRPF personnel being shown on TV is not Deputy Commandant...

Aurangabad: A day after two policemen were killed in an IED blast at the Dhibra police station in Aurangabad, two more live bombs were discovered near the police station on Tuesday. Officials say that both bombs have been safely defused.
On Tuesday morning, another officer injured in the blast outside the...

Aurangabad: In a case of shocking neglect, the CRPF Deputy Commandant who was hurt in an IED blast on Monday has succumbed to his injuries. The officer died after an alleged delay in medical help. He allegedly received no medical attention for over two hours.
The blast took place near...

Patna: Two policemen were allegedly killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast outside a police station in Bihar. The blast took place outside Dhibra police station in Aurangabad.
Officials said that another policeman was injured.
The blast happened when policemen were trying to defuse the IED recovered on Sunday night.
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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Gujarat model of development would burst after the Lok Sabha election - just as the BJP's "India Shining" burst after the 2004 polls.
He was addressing rallies in Aurangabad of Bihar and earlier in Jharkhand's Godda district. He formally started the party's...

Aurangabad: Pointing out that Bharatiya Janata Party ally Shiv Sena beats up people of Bihar in Mumbai, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the former saying that its leaders are seeking votes in Bihar. While addressing a rally at Aurangabad in Bihar, Rahul said, "Shiv sainiks...

An accused in the 2000 massacre of 34 Dalits in Bihar was arrested on Friday from a school in the state, police said.
Nanbutan Sharma, accused in the massacre that took place in Aurangabad district's Miyapur village, was arrested by the police in Arwal district, about 100 km from Patna, police...

New Delhi: Seven prisoners managed to escape from police custody in Aurangabad on Friday noon. The seven were being produced in court when the incident happened.
The police has managed to re-arrest three of them. The rest are absconding.
A massive manhunt has been launched to arrest them.
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Emphasising that the Congress is an ideology imbibed in the Indian psyche for years, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said in Aurangabad on Wednesday that "anybody who wants to destroy it will be thrown out".
Reacting to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) election call to rid the country of the Congress, Rahul...

Two Maoists have been arrested with a haul of arms from Khaira police station area in Bihar's Aurangabad district, police said on Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, the police nabbed the two Maoists of an obscure outfit Gyanmukti Parishad from a vehicle parked on the road on Saturday and seized two...

A hardcore Maoist was arrested on Wednesday from a village in Bihar's Naxalinfested Aurangabad district, police said. Acting on a tip off, the police raided Pichhulia village and nabbed the dreaded Maoist Dharmendra Yadav from a hideout, the Superintendent of Police (SP) Upendra Kumar Sharma said.
The Maoist was wanted in...

Aurangabad: The Aam Aadmi Party's Aurangabad office was reportedly attacked by a dozen people today.
AAP activists alleged that the attackers belonged to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Activists of a fringe rightwing group had last week attacked and vandalised the AAP office at Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district.
Armed with...

Aurangabad: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday asked the village functionaries to take all measures for effective implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in rural areas.
He was speaking at the meeting of village functionaries from Aurangabad and Jalna districts. He said that the prime intention behind...

Three contractors were arrested on Thursday on charges of collusion with the Maoists from MadanpuraKasma road under Salaiya police station area in Bihar's naxalhit Aurangabad district, a police officer said.
Acting on a tipoff, the police intercepted a Bolero jeep and nabbed the three contractors of Power Grid Corporation, while they...

Aurangabad: Naxals on Sunday issued a threat to selfstyled godman Asaram's ashram in Aurangabad, Bihar. Naxals are demanding that the ashram should be shifted out of the town.
Asaram is currently lodged in Jodhpur jail in a sexual assault case involving a minor girl.
Surat Police has also registered complaints filed by...

Three Maoists, wanted in a number of cases, were arrested while meeting their families in Jharkhand's Palamudistrict.
Pancham Rai, wanted in atleast 12 cases,including in Bihar's Aurangabad district in which a policeman got killed, was arrested from Hamidnagar area last evening, Dy SP Mukesh Kumar Mahato told newsmen in Medininagar on...

Pune: Bajaj Auto chief Rajiv Bajaj on Monday gave a week's ultimatum to the top management and the union to resolve the 42dayold strike at the Chakan plant, failing which he warned that the company will be forced to move the board to shift production to other plants.
Giving an...

Aurangabad: Five security personnel, including three state policemen and two security guards, were killed in a Naxal attack in Aurangabad district of Bihar on Wednesday night. Around 50 armed Naxals arrived at the culvert in Goh area in the district and exploded bombs in a bid to destroy it.
However, the...

Aurangabad: Five policemen, including three state policemen, were on Wednesday killed in an encounter with Naxals in Bihar's Aurangabad district.
State Director General of Police Abhayanand said that the three policemen belonged to Special Auxilliary Police Unit while the other two deceased were private security guards at the site of the...

Patna: In another instance of Congress reaching out to Nitish Kumar, the Union Rural Development Ministry has approved Rs 4,000 crore for the construction of 5,700 km of rural roads, highest allotment for the state in the past 12 years.
"I'm happy that today. I'll inform Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...

Aurangabad: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the droughthit Aurangabad district and assured villagers of taking prompt measures to tackle water and fodder scarcity.
"The problems of water and fodder supply in droughthit areas would be taken up on a war footing," Rahul said while interacting with farmers and...

The usual dusty smalltown India greets us as a small group of people associated with the NGO Caring Friends travel over twoandahalf days through Aurangabad and Jalna to understand the problems in the region and what help could be given. On the face of it, people seem to be going...